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National Defence committee It's my home town.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour
National Defence committee I would say the joint force, for the record.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour
National Defence committee I wouldn't necessarily link our activities in the Pacific with NATO. We're actively involved in the Pacific. Most recently we had a couple of warships that had been operating out in the Pacific to show Canadian presence and to work with selected allies and partners out there. A n
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour
National Defence committee You're going to push hard for metrics on something that requires activity on a number of levels, from procurement to procedures, tactics, and documentation. In NATO the interoperability is enhanced by a well-greased series of things that bring interoperability to bear. We're a pa
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour
National Defence committee The answer to that is really that we're a part of the information network, so when a missile launch is detected through NORAD and through the Canadian connection to NORAD, that information is passed to government. It's not the Canadian Forces' responsibility to activate those civ
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour
National Defence committee I would say that NATO is involved in the warning piece, and NATO would also be notified of a potential missile launch. In terms of the impact of a strike within North America, our ability to handle that on our own, and then in the context of Article 5 and Canada and North Americ
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour
National Defence committee I can supplement that too. Like General Joyce, I was the wing commander of 14 Wing Greenwood in Nova Scotia, which is a small area in Annapolis Valley in southwest Nova Scotia. One of my roles was to interact with the community and build relationships with the community. One of
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour
National Defence committee I can start off with an example yesterday. We had a two-day joint operations symposium here in Ottawa. One of the attendees was the three-star German commander of multinational core northeast, which is the superior organization to which the Latvian brigade reports. His ask of u
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour
National Defence committee A great activity is the Arctic Security Forces Roundtable, which we're hosting in Halifax, May 1-3. All the Arctic countries are coming, as well as a number of observers, and we're going to talk about Arctic security.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour
National Defence committee To put it into context, too, is you ask us questions about the military instrument but we talk a lot about how the military instrument fits into the broader.... We talk about DIME: diplomatic, informational, military, economic. We've been successful, I think, in the west, in appl
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour
National Defence committee The Arctic security forces round table, which is called the northern flanks meeting as well, is where we talk about security issues. It gets together on an annual basis. I participated in the last one in northern Sweden. We have the Arctic countries coming together with a number
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour
National Defence committee It's pretty impressive.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour
National Defence committee I think it depends on who you listen to in terms of why Russia is embarking upon the program it's doing in the north. Whether or not you perceive that as threat depends on who you speak to.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour
National Defence committee From a military perspective, our job is to consider the worst-case scenario and be prepared, but take a look at the deep roots historically in Russia that focus on the Arctic; they're very much an Arctic nation. They have a considerable portion of their population up north with c
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour
National Defence committee Perhaps General Joyce could refer to the NATO approach to the Arctic and the active role that it plays.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
MGen William Seymour